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Archlinux refused the sponsorship

Source?

A month ago Arch came under ddos attack. DHH and others were offering to either pay for or get Cloudflare to sponsor antiddos protection for Arch.

Instead of accepting the offers or even saying why they won't various Arch services were down for almost a month.

Then Arch published https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/ essentially saying that they are seeking ideologically pure service

Arch (and most FOSS Linux distributions) are highly resistant to ddos attacks.

Good luck trying to ddos their mirrors and mailing lists.

Literally August and parts of September

To be fair, the mirrors and mailing lists were fine throughout.

I didn't see "ideologically pure" anywhere in the linked statement but what I did find was this quote:

> We are also evaluating DDoS protection providers while carefully considering factors including cost, security, and ethical standards.

How is that not reasonable?